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Actress June Gable climbed the ladder, drew herself up to her full 5 ft. and zinged a one-liner at 7-ft. 2-in. Los Angeles Laker Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Want to see my touchdown?" As it happened, the script of NBC-TV's Laugh-In revival called for "Want to see my sky hook?" But nobody called personal foul. Gable's gaffe is now part of the Sept. 12 show. Kareem, too, scores his share of points as a guest artist on the first of six monthly specials. When a crew member started chatting about antique...
...Freddie Laker's Laker Airways, which plans to offer $236 round-trip tickets between New York City and London (TIME, June 27), will become the second scheduled British carrier on that run. Either Laker or British Caledonian, another privately owned carrier, will gain a route between Los Angeles and London. In addition, British airliners will be allowed to fly into Houston and Seattle and, after three years, into Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth...
...arrives after a flight is sold out will have to wait up to 24 hours for the next one. No free food will be served; passengers will have to bring their own snacks or buy meals on board (about $3 for a steak dinner). At the New York end, Laker's planes will use Kennedy Airport-but in Britain they will operate out of Stansted Airport, 45 miles from London-and an inconvenient place to be stuck overnight...
Rival Shuttle. Laker is confident of making a profit; to do so, he will have to fill an average two-thirds of the 345 seats on each flight during the summer rush. Pan Am and TWA, which hope to attract some of Laker's customers, are sure to offer some rival shuttle of their own, or at least cut-rate stand-by seating on regularly scheduled flights. Some other transatlantic lines may do so too -but not Laker's state-owned competitor, British Airways. British authorities do not plan to grant British Airways a Skytrain-type license...
...Civil Aeronautics Board has approved Laker's Skytrain for a one-year experimental period only and can cancel the flights on 15-days' notice should the British government prevent U.S. carriers from starting competing bargain services. Whether that happens probably depends on what progress U.S. and British negotiators make in concluding a new agreement to regulate the number of flights and seats offered on the North Atlantic route. The Bermuda Agreement between the two countries expires midnight Tuesday. The British demand that in a new pact their lines receive half the revenues produced by flights between...